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//- 2- Pro 73 .„ -. - 16 RSONS SEEKING LANDED EU REF. HC APES, TOWN.AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, PRop',':' oLD A.N'D LE ASEFIOLD INVESTMENTS, AND T "L'II " 7 ' i-ni:B G UrE.RALLY— th;°" If - , %-13 GRATIS at the principal Railway Bookstalls No.(T3110 Mt the kingei o 2 m, vlt o, Chalor at the Auction and Estate Offioef , 3, eery -I. ne, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley s Of lande dE P ' PER T‘i . nEGISTER," containibp; a varied selection ~eti and I ,ouge properties now in the market, from cott age an's ~ ; mansion, with its manorial domain, to the OWNER! Nr/ ` " d ''...s few acres. _ 1 , 0,... rROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can .em ;74 the r ~„ opportunity that the medium of this . Register kst a 8 ' i , u 9 sending the particulars of their properties to the tu t t l e e ' ;faces, fi7, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs. Vrli e ‘1 can in most cases introduce immediate customers, k g , r t e to de property is of an eligible character, thereby avoid ' ten' IL! disadvantages of delay and its attendant moon ie races. 'IR eta, ERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or ‘;',ur am : 'r is introduced through Alessrs. Lumley's A4ency, A .hen Only'zhe usual moderate comr,lission. ......._ , notion ar i d Land Offices, 67, Chaiicery-lane, London. . - • . '4 '''. 0 7 .. t..., .- -,, ---. ~i_., : x :; -•• .0 4 . . . `,.. .. • .. .: . IP. - • , . . . - ?./C2'. - .\\ sate, ..,........ . - • 4,1 ,'"* -- ' ' '; ': ? ) ' - .Y. , C:3 ......r,.. ....,, y..: 240 rg lOt , ~ , ,4 ) . _ . t... K% , ._,., ' ' --- 7Y-TAr, • ...: , -...t fir, 4 ''' 41).;.:ikt,.. ~ ,..fz.L .2 .0... 0-' , . . - -- -0 .. -,.1...px.„..... , 7,:.,.."4,....• ~ .... t 1 6.0 ~,,,,,r 1 1 ) ; . - .DROIT• ''' - i'N.,.... , ..-. - , . ...... .. • _ . PRIM% ......4d. STAMPED ... .sd. THE SUN, LONDON SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1864. N°. 22.363. WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE NEW WORK BY THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER. PANTOMIMES ?My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup Now ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Fine Portrait 30 at EVANS', Covent-garden. COURT AND SOCIETYs, s., KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC, "The P" ..MANCHESTER, NJ to ANNE. Edit.' -., from ELIZABETH by the DUKE of "' _..., from the Papers at Kimbolton, BRANDY. the ' —dice of Manchester has done a welcome service to This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest • , Lovers or gossip and secret history by publishing these FRENCH BRANDY, 1 famil y papers,"—Athenmum. It ii Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholo ..,,onie. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough street. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses ir London;- _ ... by the Agents in the principal towns in Engl a nd or wholesale at THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN WAR,. biished themselves in the Stenterup and Boffel woods. By this movement they gained full com mand over the isthmus of the Broager peninsula, and secured an easy escape for their troops at Smog, had these latter been "caug ht in the trap" laid for them by the Danes, in the event of their retreat being cut off at the Egernsund by the destruction of the bridge. The possession of the Stenterup and Boffel woods was riot to h e given up by the Danes without a spirited struggle. About 12 o'clock at noon the sierm sounded through the streets of Sonderborg. It is one of the peculiarities of the Danish army that it boasts not a single drum, with the exception of the Royal foot-guards at Copenhagen, not a man of whom has as yet reached the camp. The alarm was, therefore, given by the trumpets, and, in a few minutes, three regiments of infantry were pressing to the bridge towards the scene of action. On ap proaching the woods, however, they found the enemy disposed to give way before them without striking a blow, and before three o'clock the Danish pickets had recovered the position from which they had been driven in the morning. The morning skirmish has cost the Danes five or six dead and 30 wounded ; among the slightly wounded an officer. Such has been, for this day, the conclusion of an action of no great moment as to its immediate results, but full of serious meaning if we either con sider the designs which brought it about, or the remote consequences it has had, or might have had. To what extent the Rolf Krate obtained its intent, which was to destroy the German bridge on the Egernsund, and thus shut up as many of them as had ventured into the Broager Peninsula, whence they would have had no other egress than through the isthmus between Nybol and Dybbol, we are not yet able to ascertain, and we are equally uncertain as to whether or not the Austro-Prussians marched out of the peninsula through the isthmus, profiting by the two or three hours in which their troops drove the Danish pickets from their posts in the Stenterup and Bodel Woods, and had possession of them. We may obtain more positive information before time comes to close this letter for the post. But in the meanwhile there is abundant proof that the Germans are far as yet from having it in their power to shut up the Danes in their position at Dybbol, and that these latter have still strategy and pluck enough to defeat the enemy's plans on a ground which they seemed to have already aban donbd, but on which their command of the sea en ables them to reassert their hold whenever it suits them. (From the Times Special Correspondent with the Danish .4rmy.) DANISH HEADQUARTERS, SONDEREOEG, February 27. We are in actual armistice here, though in daily expectation of a renewal of hostilities. I was de sirous yesterday to see what ground there might be for the belief, rather generally entertained here, chat the Austro-Prussians, In their apparent state of inaction, meditated a great stroke—no less a feat indeed, than throwing a bridge across the So und from Sandbjerg or Storeskov. I rode out conse quently through the western districts of Ulkeb ol and lijcer as far as Ronhave and Arnkielsore. The little triangular piece of ground which lies between the Sound and the Augustenburg Fiord has its base between Sonderborg ,and Ulkebol and its apex at Arnkielsore. It is hilly, or at least boldly undulated, as far as Kker ; but it sinks down into almost a dead fiat at Ronhave. As I approached the latter place the signs of habitation, w hich were not very fre quent in what is called Ulkebol-Westermark and Kjoar-Westermark, almost entirely disappeared. The territory of Ronhave, up to the extreme point of the triangle at Arnkielsore, is but one vast farm, and the gaard or court where tae landowner resides is almost the last habitation. The rural population is scanty everywhere in these regions, notwithstand ing the great fertility of the 01. There seems to be nothing like small farming in Denmark, a circum stance which, coupled with a provident municipal administration and the all pervading spread of edu cation, account for the total absence of mendicity, or indeed sordid poverty, to which I alluded in my last letter. t URN I rURE, CARPI?" eS, BEDDING, and the! P LOORCLOTIT, CARRTAGE-FREE to any house in pm kingdom, reg - ardless of aount or distance. First. class Cdr( is at second-class pris'a. Terms peculiarly liberal to ibn VYmen and Gentlemen , ky displaifed in Showr An immense stock to select .coms occupying an acre of ground. ry,articfe warrante , : t . ;-',RGYMEN an ? ..t GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR 'U are respectfully informed that Messre, Cobbett and zi t a re publish inz an entirely New Edition of their un _ are HOUS ,E PURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo ! I able eng - ravings of every descriptiova of Furniture and :1: tst t-fraeede o s, r rith prices attached. A copy sent gratis and 11 +, application. 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By this new arrangement, that which is in reality no'hing, but a shadow, becomes to all ap pearance endowed with life, and when "Fame" takes her flight through the burning Cataracts, and the Naiads seek their beds in the Crystal Waters, form a coup d'ceil of beauty unparalleled even in fairy romance. Prince Blossom (with the Song of all Nations), Miss Townley. The Marvellous Illusion will take place every Evening at half-past Nine o'c ock. All the wonderful entertainment of the establishment, as usual, in addition to the above. Admission—Area, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is. Open every Evening. John Murray, Albemarle-street. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. eh . e Directors hereby give notice * 'that, in consequence of It. e ralnediate extension of the Loud on, Chatham, and Dover lapi -1 ,.; %754 Y, they have vac ited their oY ,ces, No. 6, Crescent, QS, No. and REMOVED tc) their NEW PREMISES, ' 2 9. Fleet-street, E.C. F eb'teary 4, 1864. NOTICE. —SIR VICTOR'S CHOICE, the New Novel, in 3 vols., will be ready on WEDNESDAY NEXT at all Librario s. London : John 'Maxwell and Co„ 122, Fleet-street. This day, Never brAore Printed, price 25., ornamental boards, THE B UCCANEER A Tale of th( Spantsh Main. By GusTAvE AIMARD. GOVERNMENT AW,NUITIES BILL.-At of ueL numer o lFE u ASsl attendei'l MEETING of the MEMBERS y SUR f;;,tees of the Royal Fa' ii.JE PROFESSION, held at the vaers' Assurance Company, 3 , Nor .4-street, Strand, on Friday, February 19, 1864, JOHN REI Esq„ in the Chair, The following Re solutions were passed:— i!. That Life Assur Ince has been carried on i this country ': a century and a fralf by private enterprise, n and that the Assurance Co* apanie , have fulfilled their engagements 1 manner whit n w ill b ear honourable comparison with that of anY other class of institutions; that they have alwa y s a Pted themsel res to the public wants and convenience, and n able and willing to continue to do so. That this Meeting is of opinion that the proposal of the r_ernment is an interference with ordinary commercial 57 rise, and ought t,o be opposed. 1 3 ;• hat a CommittQe, with power to add to their number, had appointed., to the purpose of watching the measure 1 . ' a iling such s,teps as they may deem expedient. rti. That the foregoing Resolutions be signed by the Chair -411 and transmitted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, ot tLed in the dilly papers, and sent to the metropolitan and .4-ier members of the House. JOHN REDDISH, Chairman. &commaTTF ' r, .t.—C. Jellicoc, Esq , J. Reddish, Esq., T. B. sq. H. T. Tinfold, Esq., J. Messent, Esq., Hen -il ry arhen F Asq. b"roManications in reference to the above subject should addressed to the Honozary Secretary, Henry Ha ben, 35, London. London: Watd and Lock, 15 - 8, Fleet-street. This day' published, price 25., ornamental boards, T R APle ERS OF ARKANSAS , By GIISTA.VE AIMARD. Lond ;on : Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet-street. FEBRUARY 18, 9 Y.M. The mail closes in a few minutes, and no fresher intelligence has reached us. It seemed almost posi tive that the bridge on the Egernsund is not de stroyed, and the position of the Germans in the Broager Peninsula remains as it was. The experi ment will, however, be renewed• FEBRUARY 20. TIOYAL ALHAMBR A.- 4_l, LAST NIGHTS of FRANCONI'S GRAND CIRQUE. EVERY EVENING, at Half-past Seven o'clock : and on MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and SATURDAY, at 2 O'clock., Thi B day, Never before Published, price 25., "A • L L A T SE A;' Or, Recollections of a Hear-pay Officer. _ . By Lieut.-Col. H. It. ADDISON. Y ~ondou Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet-street. ROYAL ALHAMBR A.- FRANCONPS ENGAGEMENT will SHORTLY TERMINATE. Now ready, in Two Vols., Bvo., price 325., F° RTY YEARS IN AMERICA. 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A Letter of Christian IV. of Denmark, anno 1611; of Sir Philip Sydney, Washington, Nelson, Nesselrode, Metternich, Dumouriez. the Earl of Ellesmere, Coleridge, Mrs. Trollope, the Countess of Derby (Miss Farren , , Charles Kean, Miss Helen Faucit, Charles Mathews; and Sketches, with Auto graphs, of Thaokeray and Leech. Temporary Oflioc —llO, Strand, W.C. • TRE IMPEI.tIAL FINANCIAL COMPANY I n n. (Limited). rPorated undr " The Companies Act, 1862," by which the liability of the s h a reholders is limited to the amount pitalyf.their share Z2,00'0000, in 40,000 shares of £5 O each. First 20.0 c i 0 shares. Deposit, £1 per share on applica tion, and e xceed S, 9£4 on allotment. Subsequ ent calls not to 10a., and at intervals of not l ess than three months. N o call will be made until after the expiration It'three months from the date of allotment. 8 11 '4 intended to call up more than Ll 5 per share ; but 111 'the operations of advantageously increase, and more !hare capital can be employed, further !Banes of shares will be made, a preference being given to the then existing shareholders. a DIRECTORS. co 'ill Chapman, Esq., Director of the Union Bank of London. 'olin Oliver Hanson, Esq., Director of the National Pro r, vincial Bank of England. C aptain J. Gilbert Johnston, Director of the London and South Western aailway Company. 'aeries Kelson, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Thames G aud Mersey Marine Insurance Company. e °rge Gordon Macpherson, Esq., Chairman of the Agra Sir United Service Bank. l J ohn Henry Pelly, Bart. , Dep ut y -Governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation. William Scholefield, Esq., M.P., Director of the Union c, B ank of L on d on . *IC Sibbald David Scott, Bart., Director of the National Provi n • li e mil Bank of England. arY Danby Seymour, Esq., street. M.P., 3 9 , Uppe r Grosvenor- ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-stree t, Piccadilly, IS OPEN EVERY EVENING. During the evening: an unparalleled repertoire of D' ‘nce Music, Selections and Overtures, is performed by !tie t cele brated Argyll Band, forty in number. Doors Open at Half-past 8, commence a 9. Admission is. B USINESSES. - MR. ANDREW HIND'S JANUARY LIST, Containing 603 Businesses, Premises, Partnerships, &c., Gratis. Letters, enclose stamp. Particulars entered free. Offices—Corner of LITTLE CARTER-LANE, ST. PAUL'S. Manager, M. GRE NET. 44A, MADDOX-STREET, REGENT-STREE" THE LONDON ANATOMICAL )1I Open daily from 10 till 10. Where may b JSEUM. Astons ; Bushman and Wife ; Julia Pastrana e seen the Eng and Shang, the Siamese Twins; and upwf nd Infant Models, Natural Preparations, .150. Egyptia .rds of 3,000 unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission, One a Mummies, Gentlemen only). Shilling (tor HOUSES. —Mr. ANDREW HIND has for SALE a Corner SHOP, at Holloway, and Three Pri vate Houses adjoining, producing £94 per annum. Ground rent £25. Price £715, or separately. Also the followin Chelsea, four, 1,000 guineas; ditto, £5OO and £850; Camden town, two, .Ei,201 ; rtolloway, two, .0670 ; Homerton. six, £135 each, &c. Offices, corner of Little Carter.lane, St. Paul's. ON CHLORATE OF POTASSA AND ITS USE IN OXYDISIN THE BLOOD. G DR, J. P. SARGEANT, M.R.C. , ' .3., and L.S.A. (1836`, will shortly repeat his Lectir at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, and w ill r :e on this subject that Chlorate of Potassa, (as prepared 1 atisfactorily prove through a mixture of quick-lime and wat )y passing chlorine bailing a long time with Chloride of F er, and subsequently active remedy for oxydising the blood, . otassiuml is a most to the low, vitiated state of the nervour and restoring . vitality fore calculated to supersede the use of . system, and is there and s arsaparilla.— 56, Gower-street,l3 iron, meroury, quinine, edford-square, London. FARM WANTED to rent, from 50 to 200 Beres, with moderate-sized dwelling-house and outbuildings. Particulars to be sent to A. H., 15, Godliman-street, Doctors'- commons, London. Family Residence and Land. MR. ANDRE AT HIND has to LET a comfort able HOUSE, in Essex, fourteen miles from town and two from a station, delightfully situate on high ground, and commanding extensive views. Contains lofty drawing room, dining and morning rooms, four best and five other bed rooms, kitchens and cellars. Grounds comprise pleasure and kitchen gardens, shrubbery, paddock, and meadow, together about seven acres ; with lodge entrance, stabling, coach house, green house, ornamental water, and bridge. Rent, on three years' agreement, £l2O ; fixtures, £5O ; or the lease for 18 years at £lOO. Price, with fixtures, £2OO. Cards to view may be had at the Auction and Estate Agency Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. SOHO ESTATE, HOUSE' BUSINESS AGENCY OFF , AND GENERAL Freehold or Leasehold Property ICES.—Persons requiring- Houses to be disposed of, should ,or having - Business and MURRAY, Auctioneer and T apply to Mr. CHARLES Soho, W. aluer, 26, Gerrard-street, Valuations for Probate Admit way Compensations, &c. Reni GENERAL MANAGER. T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq. 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Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul . ESIDENCE.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has to LET or SELL an excellent Detached HOUSE at Hackney, containingbasement, Am. The neigh bourhood is pleasant and healthy ; soil gravel. Rent, £9O. Price, freehold, £1,600. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. THE NEW By L. CABEr WEAT H E R INDICA TOR, the Weather, either LA, for correctly foretelling Changes in Lars, with rules, by for Rain, Wind, or Moisture. Particu lar, just put' inclosing stamp. FORMS for cor fished, CASELLA'S New and Improved CAL OMER - V.l ectly REGISTERING METEOROLOGI. 2:'• ,TItoNS. , Hatton-garden, London, E.C. jRELAND.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has for SALE the Lessee's Interest in a convenient Small 11,ESIDENCE and 76 Acres of prime LAND,pleasantly Situate near the City ot Cork, and commanding beautiful views of the harbour and surrounding country. Good shoot ing and fishing. Term of lease, 91 years ; ground rent, £72. Price, £7OO. 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A special Court of Common Council was held yesterday, at Guildhall, for the pe,rPOse of electing a gentleman to fill the office of City architect, in the place of the late Mr. Bunning. The names of 11 candidates were upon the paper of busi ness, namely, Mr T. D. Barry, surveyor to the city of Nor wich; Mr R.Bell, architect and surveyor, Old Broad-street; Mr F. Chancellor, architect and surveyor, Pinner's Hall, Old Broad-street ; Mr H. Dawson, architect and surve y or, Finsbury. 11140 ; bar W. it. heath, architect and surveyor, troad-street-buildings; Mr W. C. Horne, architect and Rirveyor, Guildford-street, Russell-square ;Mr L. 11. Isaacs, architect and surveyor, Verulam-buildings, Gray's ; Mr H. Jones, architect and surveyor, Furnival's-inn; Mr F. Peck, architect and surveyor, Furnival'a-inn ; Mr J, S. Tucker, architect and surveyor, Park-street, Gros venor-square; and Mr F. Wallen, architect and surveyor, Old Broad-street. There was a 12th candidate in the person of Mr Richard Tress, but in consequence of that gentleman having been a member of the Court of Common Council within three months of the election, and being thus ineligi ble under the standing orders to accept any office under the Corporation, his name was omitted from the list of candi dates. At the commencement of the proceedings the Town Clerk read letters from Mr Barry and Mr Horne, announcing that they had withdrawn from the contest. Three other gentlemen, Messrs. Isaacs, Tucker, and Peck, were subsequently declared ineligible under the stand ing orders of the Court ; so that the number of candidates who finally went to the poll was six only, namely, Messrs. Bell, Chancellor, Dawson, Heath, Jones, and Wallen. It was arranged that this number should first be reduced to four, and the result of the poll was that Messrs. Bell, Dawson, Jones, and Wallen had obtained the greatest number of votes. Another poll was then taken to reduce this number to two, when Messrs. Bell and Jones were at the head of the poll. Upon the final poll, Mr Jones was at the head of the poll, and that gentleman was conse quently declared to be duly elected. The contest was alto gether a very close one ; the first numbers declared were : Jones, 133; Bell, 130 ; Dawson, 110 ; Wallen, 109. Upon the second poll the numbers were :—Jones, 86 , Bell, 78 , Dawson, 38 ; Wallen, 35. Upon the final poll the num bers were :—Jones, 95 ; Bell, 82. Mr JoNEs hrieiy returned thtinks; and the Court ad journed. Standing on the door-sill of the court of Ron have, or on the skirts of the woods at Arn kielsore, I could distinctly sea over the water a few Prussians moving about in the woods of Sandbjerg and Storeskov. Those woods belong to a fine landed estate, the property of one of the many branches of the Reventlow family, and the beautiful Slot or Palace of Sandbjerg rises close to the water-side, on the opposite shore, about half a mile from the spot where I stood. In the pleasure grounds and the Chase of Sandbjerg, then, the Austro-Prussians have lodged themselves, and alto gether I may have counted about 100 of them. They were all Prussians, and all infantry men; and the pickets on duty on our (the Danish) side and the peasantry on the spot assured me no artillery, pon toon, or bridge equipage was anywhere to be seen. The evidence of their eyes or of mine goes for no thing, however, for very extensive operations might be carried on under cover of the bare, but dense plantation. The width of the Sound, which, as I said, is only 150 yards at the bridges of Sonderborg is, to say the least, twice as great on the narrow est point opposite to Storeskov. What means modern engineering may have to bridge over a sheet of water nearly a third of an English mile in width competent persons can judge; bat what is very sure, at any rate, is that all attempts at crossing would be gal lantly resisted by the Danes. Wherever I went, all along the Sound, on tLe slope of the banks trenches were being rapidly thrown up, and at the water edge rifle pits were being dug for picket service. The Danes had hitherto no proper forts on the Sound, because they relied, as they still in a great measure rely, on the aid of their gunboats ; but their field batteries are drawn up in the very best order at every farm house, and could be brought to bear on any threatened spot in not many minutes. Not only along the Sound, but all alongpe line of Dybbol, on the mainland, the Danes are striving to add artificial strength to what is already naturally a very strong position. They keep no less than 6,000 men constantly at work. Every time I ride to the outposts, and that is almost daily, I see new bastions raised, new fields levelled, palisades reared, and huts constructed for the accommodation of the troops. Brave as the Danes are on the open field, they,seem aware that their fate lies rather in de. fence than attack, and in this present instance they are but too much justified in seeking in stone walls and earth bastions a vantage ground to counter balance the enormous numerical superiority of their adversary. May be all them active and extensive preparations will have been made in vain, and armistice and peace may be concluded before new "Danes' work" be quite ready for use; but the Danes themselves, soldiers aid officers, will hear no more about the cessation of hostilities. They long to measure their strength with that of the Germans, and are especially anxious for a brush with the Prussians. Next in favour to their national air, "Den tappre Landsoldat," is the other song, "Nu skal vi da atter med Preusserne slaaes" (Now shall we again with the Prussians fight), which they sing with great spirit and exultttioo, loud enough to be heard at the outposts on the other side. The whole of the Third Division of the Danes Army has left us, part of it embarking directly for Fredericia, in Jutland, a ni the remainder crossing over the ferries into r an o, to march across that island through Middelfartto the same destination. The Commander-in-Chief of the division, General Wilster, was still here yesterday, but has in all pro bability followed his troops in the night. The Danish army is thus virtually divided into two. However active the compunications between the head-quarters here and General Wilster'e Staff at Fredericia, the movem en ts of the latter officer must to a great extent be left to his own discretion and responsibility. The Danish army cons i s ts of three division s, com mended by Generals Gerlich , D u Plat, and Wilster. Every division has three inf antr y bri g ades, each brigade composed of two regiments, with two bat talions to each regi men t,. A Danish battalion musters 800 men, a reg iment, consequently , 1,600, a brigade 3 , 200 , and a divisio n 9,600. Each divi sion is, besides, provided with tw o field-batteries, a bout 400 men, and half a regim ent of dra g oons, a bout 300. Altogether a divisio n, in its p erfect state of efficiency, consists of no less than 10,300 men. The three divisions make a total of 30,900. There is, besides, a fourth, or cavalry division, un der the orders of Gen.llegermann-Lindercrone, con sisting of thre e cavalr y brigades, each brigade of two cavalry regiments, each regiment of six squad-. rens, with 120 men for each squadron. This would make a force a 720 men for each regiment, 1,440 for each brigade, Rad 4,320 for the whole division. The Danes, as I have stated, h a ve only infantry of the line; nothing like rifle men% sharpshooters, Zouaces, or Bersaglieri, All their foot soldiers are capital shots. T here are Peculia r evolutions for light i n fantry, however , for which all infantry men are not equally fit, and which require a great amount of special training. In Italy, for instance, the Ber saglieri corps, which was once one battalion, and now consists of 23 regiments (so useful has its action been found found in late campaigns), is almost whollY cruited among th e moun tainee rs of Piedmont, Lom - hardy, Liguria, Sec., es the inhabitant s of the plain are deficient in that hardihood, agility which are req uired fo r all t he running, leaping, crouching , an d crawlin g i ndis p ensable in twaalleur activit service. Many of the very mountain lads that are e ntered in the Bersaglieri corps have soon to be made o ver to the infantry of the lin e, as they too often break down under the sever e exertions by which their powers of endurance are tested. Possibly the and supple for that kind of work. Danes, however strong, All this does not include four reserve regiments of foot and the artillery reserve. On the whole, are not sufficiently agile taking into account the losses the army has suffered in dead, wounded, and prisoners, during the week's hostilities on the D an me w erke, the few stragglers on the retreat, and the sick in hospital, it may be safe to compute the number of actual combatants on the line to something between 25,000 and 30,000. Some of the reserve having lately come up from Copen hagen. I am inclined to think that the atter num ber is nearer to the truth; but ar l mies, asy one knows. never ere on the grclurla what they IT. that the cadres of ever y battalion, regiment, p ear on paper; and I would not undertake to assert brigade, or divieJien in s he Danish army are quite filled up. Some very fi r ", bOtalions of Grenadiers of the King's Guard, an d a Nna 2ron of 120 gigan tic cuirassiers of the Life Guards, whom I so great l y admired at Copenhagen , never appear el. in the Duchy of Schleswig, even when the King vh;.9 at headquarters at Castle Gottorp, or here at Sonder borg. Now that his Majesty has gone back to the capital it would be idle, I suppose, to look for the arrival of those household troops, which ought never to move except by way of escort and protection to the Royal person. By all accounts that reach us from the invaded part,s of the Duchy of Sehleswig,lit would seem that the Austro-Prussians are bent on discountenancing all revolutionary movements and so-called patriotic demonstrations so far as their occupation extends. It was only on their first arrival at Eckernforde, Schleswig, and other towns that, in the midst of the enthusiasm got up among the German party for the reception of the " brotherly" troops, and in their anxiety to mind their own special business, which was the attack on the Dannewerk, the commanders of the two invading armies were compelled to allow the demagogues chasmal swing. But now, it '' wou ld seem, thes comm anders find them. selves more fully at their leisure, and they have very clearly intimated to the Schleswigers that they will bear no hand in any political innovation, and, limiting themselves to admi nister the country as much as possible accord ing to its old laws and institutions, they will leave the future destinies of the Duchies in the hands of th os e whom it may concern. For my own part, there is no stronger conviction in my mind than that the Schleswigers and even the Holeteiners, are a people not to be moved to any revolutionary act except by a very strong pressure on the part of foreign agitators. Had Denmark been left alone with her subjects, I feel sure, whatever the feelings of nationality might be in the heart of some of them that the Schleswig-Holsteiners would never have given very alarming sigi;s of disaffection ; for it is undeniable, on the one hand, that they could under no German Government have; attained so great an amount of wellbeing, culture, and real free dom as they enjoyed under their Danish rule.% and on the other, that they were fully aware how weD off they were, and their contentment was, to say the least, commensurate with their native loyalty and submissiveness, their love of order and respect for constituted authority. It is idle to say that they were kept quiet by main force; it must not be forgotten that the two Duchies constituted two-fifths of the Danish mo narchy, and a population of that strength supported by all the national party in Germany would have been fully equal to a contest with the crown of Denmark, had that Crown exercis ed any tyrannical sway over them, had the discontent been so rife among them as the German newspapers describe it. These are, however, political topics, and only to be touched upon in the event of warlike operations giving way before diplomatic negotiations. FEB. 18. Those of the readers of the Times who have had patience to read through my foregoing letters will have gained, I should hope, a sufficiently distinct knowledge of the respective position of the bellige rent parties here to be able to follow the events which have taken place this day to set a proper value upon-their importance. From Flensburg and Aabenraa (Apenrade), as I before said, the Austro•Prussians, advancing through the Sondeved, or Sundewitt, peninsula, between the two fiords which take their names from these towns, and facing this little isle of Als, or Alsen, had come up by the south road from Flensburg, through Ringences, Graasten, and Aldbol, as far as Nybol, and by the northern road from Aaberiraa, through unarm') to Obitissape ‘h.ir chainnxt. as far as the woods of Sandbjerg, on the Allssund. Besides these two avenues, both of which concen• trate upon the Danish position at Dybbol, the Ger mans had left the main southern road at Alnor, between Ringensei and Graasten; and from Allier had taken possession of the Egernsund, throwing a pontoon bridge across that narrow strait, and thus advancing into the minor peninsula of Broagerland by Skodsbol and Smol they came by a third road upon the Dybbol position. We heard the day be fore yesterday that Marshal Wrang h el ad moved his head-quarters up to RingenE3, and that some of the Prussian outposts had advanced into the Broagerland peninsula as far as Smol. Yesterday about 100 of them were seen in the woods of Sand bjerg and Scorskov, on the Alssund, whence , they fired on the Danish pickets across the strait, bat without any result, as apparently without object. All these movements, however, evinced on the part of the enemy some desire to break the mono tonous stillness to which they have condemned them selves since they first came in sight of the fortifica tions at Dybbol; and we all went to bed last night with the expectation of being awakened by the noise of an attack in the morning. You may remember, perhaps, that at Ole time of my first trying to lay before the reader the vosition of the Danes at Dybbol , I ex p ressed my survrise that they should have allowed the enemy a free ant! easy entrance into the Broager peninsula, as I thought that by their command of the water they might so strongly have occupied the Egernaund as not only to hold that strait against any force, but also to enable themselves to send their gunboats into the Nybol Nor, and molest their enemy in their advance along shore on the road from Adsbol to Nybol. That precaution was not taken ; the Austro-Prussians were freely let in across the Egernsund and into the Broager peninsula; or, as it now appears, they were lured in—they were allowed to come up through Skodsbol and Smol with a hope that they might be caught in a trap. How many of them have actually ventured into the Broager peninsula we have no means to ascer tain. That they had got as far as Smol, however, was well known, and the Danes, thinking the net was full, thought it high time to draw it up. This morning at a very early hour the cannon was heard. It was the Danish Monitor Rolf Krake, which had steamed up to the Egernaund in the eight, and at break of day opened fire on the bridge thrown by the Germans across the strait. The Monitor, it seems, could not, owing to the shallowness of the water, advance near enough fully to accomplish her purpose. We know nothing very precise, at least as to the effects of her fire upon the bridge. She fired 72 shots, and was ans wered by the German batteries on shore at Alnor and Holdnces (the latter place across the Flensburg fiord) with 150 shots; One of the ene. enemies' shots took effect, it is said, through her funnel, but without materially disabling her; one of her officers received a contusion, and two sailors were slightly wounded. It would seem in the meanwhile that the Austro- Prussians, uncertain of the issue of that struggle, which might in all probability have destroyed the brOge across the Egernaund and completely cut off their ;retreat over the road by which they had come, felt it incumbent upon them to secure an open way through tie isthmus of the Broager peninsula by an open attack on the outposts of the Danish posi tion at Dybbol. A mere glance at the map, and the knowledge that the outposts of the Danes are at Dybbol and those of the Austro-Prussians at Nybol, will satisfy the reader that the ground between Dybbol and Nybol, which corresponds precisely to the neck or isthmus of the Broager peninsula, is a kind of debatable ground, occupied by the pickets of either party, and in the permanent possession of neither. By far the greater part of this ground is covered by large woods, bearing to the north of the road the name of Stenterup SkOw, and to the south of the road that of Boffel Skov. This morning, to. wards 11, the Austro-Prussians walked out of Nybol in a large force, and after short skirmish lug th e y d r ove in the Danish pickets, P, - ad scut, It was a fortnight last night since the main strength of the Danish army marched out of Schles wig, beginning its toilsome and disastrous retreat from the Dannewerk. It will be a fortnight to morrow evening since the Danes sought the safe shelter of Alsen, and of the redoubted bastions at Dybbol, the great outwork of this their sea-girt fortress. The AustroTrussians were then in hot pursuit, and they have ever since stood face to face with the Danish pickets on every avenue concen trating from west, north, and south upon this place. Yet the two hostile forces have been ever since almost completely at rest, and the last san guinary affair was the brush between the rear of the pursued party and the van of the pursuers at Bilskorkrug or Oversee, on the evening of Sunday before last. 0 C course, when I say this I take into no account some occasional unavoidable and almost in voluntary exchanges of shots at the outposts, nor even of the skirmish of last Thursday, of which I 5-••• - . an 5i, ,,, -...t in my letter .of that date , and which was altogether of the Danes' own seeking. It wes the attempt of the Danish Monitor ltolf lirake to burn the pontoon bridge at E g ernsund, so as to cut off the Prussians' retreat from the Broager Pen insula, which prompted the German forward move ment from Nybol and the occupation of the Stente rup and Boffel Woods. They hoped thereby to open a way for their troops in Broagerland through the isthmus of the little peninsula, in the event of the egress across the Egernsund being intercepted. The attempt of the Rolf Brake was unsuccessful because a round cape at the entrance of the strait on the eastern shore completely masked the bridge, and the water on the western shore was too shallow for her cannon to come within reach of its aim. The safety of the bridge reassured the Austro-Prussians, who had no further object in their advance into the woods, and who therefore lost no time in retiring I within their own lines at Nybol,declining all conflicts Why they should keep so quietly within these lines, why the invasion of the Duchy of Schleswig, which began with so much ardour and vigour on their part, should come to a standstill before the bastions of Dybbol, is precisely the problem with the solution of which men's minds are busy here. That the position at Dybbol is formidable, and that the Germans are aware of its strength, is matter of certainty, for they turned all their en deavours against it in 1849, when it had hardly more than its natural advantages to rely upon, and were driven from it again and again. It is ex tremely natural for them to wish to put off their attack until they have brought up all the heavy material they can muster ; but a fortnight is a long lapse of time for the accomplishment of such a task with the present means of locomotion they have at their command, th o se means which en abled the so soon to prepare for the storming of the Dannewerk, Oa the other hand, they must be aware that the Danes on their own side i are not idle, but are adding bastion to bastion and trench upon trench, so as to make assurance doubly sure. All that the engineers here asked was just a fortnight's breathing time, and during this interval new works have risen as if by magic, and whenever the assailants are ready they will be quite sure to find the defenders fully as ready for them. As day follows day and no news is the news, we be gin to think that the expected attack will never take place, and we have been all this time tossed about between the hopes and fears of an armistice till the declarations of diplomatists in various countries set our minds at rest on that score. The Germans will not cease from hostilities, yet they will not dash their heads against the ramparts at Dybbol. Possibly they wish to carry on the war on softer ground in a different quarter. We have positive intelligence, indeed, that two days ago they crossed the frontier line which separates the Duchy of Schleswig from Jutland, and our anticipations of hot work there are so general that I have been more than once on the point of taking my berth in one of the steamers sailing regularly more than once a day to Frede ricia. The invasion of the northern part of the peni n . sula—of that purely Danish province which is neither, like Holstein, a member of the German Confederacy, nor, like Schleswig, a territory ~ in dissolubly united with it," as the Germans would have it, and which, indeed, was not even inciden tally mentioned in that Treaty of 1852, the turns of which the Austro-Prussians have undertaken to enforce—the invasion of Jutland, I said, seemed to the people here too monstrous a breach of all laws to be justified even by the exigencies of the most internecine war. That the two German Powers who have now the whole of Schleswig in their hands except this little island, and the four square miles of ground adjoining it on the main land, should not think they had accomplished their great object until they held literally every inch of Schleswig at their discretion, might be possible, and the war might be expected to go on to the utter annihilation of the army shel tering at Alsen. But what passes all belief is, that i seeing thenlearec, with all their enormous suPe- NE wsp t Eit ---'1... riority of numbers, unequal to the t _:6 T ' ' atk - Vsla4, --i s • Alsen and Dybbol, they should, witkoktaii - " a apesja eit . a. 4i4 much as trying one assault, seek eatencilii nati pt i l,l? '4;74 "el . 14,/ elsewhere, and. try to strike Denmark a a vulnerable part, shrinki- from no ungenerouel s measure to put the screw upon her, and bring her to terms by all means in their power, and with all possible speed. It is certainly not in the power of Denmark to guard all the frontier of Jutland, and the Austro- Prussians will find it as easy to overrun it to the very end of the peninsula as they found it to occupy all Schleswig after the fall of the Dannewerk. But, on the very frontier of that province, at Fredericia, there is a position as likely to brave their efforts for a length of time, as Alsen and Dybbol have evidently stemmed the tide of their too ready victories in Schleswig. The fortress of Fredericia, together wit It the little Peninsula in which it rises, aided, like this place, by inlets of the sea favouring the naval ope rations of the Panes, is, as it were, a third D ; tine werk, offering no greater temptation to an ueenter- prising enemy chary of his blood teen the place before which the Germans are now skulking with far more discretion than valour. The Danes are evidently anticipating great feats of arms on the Jutland frontier, and they are strain inc, every nerve to throw the best of their forces into Fredericia. You are aware that the best part of their cavalry, in their retreat from the Dannewerk, never came in here at all, but marched on from Flensburr through Apenrade and Hadersley into Jutland. Since then 4,000 men at first, and sub sequently the whole of the third division, were shipped off from Sonderburg to Fridericia, and I saw this morning a beautiful regiment of dragoons, nearly the whole of the cavalry that we had here, embarking for the same destination. Alsen and Dybbol are at present all but disarmed and power less for offensive purposes, and although the 12,000 men, infantry and artillery, that we still have here are more than sufficient to hold the place senst all odds, still it is not a little to be regretted that, in the event of an attack by the enemy and of his defeat, no means should be at hand for efficient pursuit. Probably the removal of all these troops with such reckless haste to the North revea:s an in tention on the part of the Danes to carry on opera tions on the open field in Jutland. The disparis j ~f numbers, and even the inferiority of weapons, par ticularly rifle and cannon, would seem to preclude the hope on their side of any warfare on a large scale. What they could not accomplish behind the Dannewerk bulwarks and the deep waters of the Schlei they can hardly expect to do on the wide plains of Jutland. They may harass the Germans with a few weeks' petite guerre, truly; but even for that kind of work their somewhat unwieldy infan try and heavy cavalry do not seem well suited. Sooner or later Fredericia and her peninsula will be as closely invested as Alsen and Dybbol sow are, and, that being the case, it remains matter of un certainty whether the Austro-Prussians will try their strength against Fredericia any more than against this place, or whether they will not rather mask both places, and, by avoiding all conflict themselves and putting all conflict on the part of the Danes out of the question, lord it all over the peninsula from Kiel to Aarhuus. I do not think there can be any doubt as to the posier the Germans have of driving the Danes utterly from the field if they choose to put forth sufficient forces for that purpose, although the Danes themselves fondly believe that the subject admits of dispute. The position at Dybbol and the peninsula at Fridericia present but a narrow ap proach to the invader ; but that very narrowness of approach, favourable as it is for defence, is no less unfavourable for offensive purposes. The garrison. shut up in its corner, and caught, as it were, in a trap, can only attempt a sally in one direction, and there the enemy awaits it on a strip of ground almost as narrow as the approach of the fortress itself. Posted on the neck of the Sundewitt penin sula, for instance, between Adsbol or Bsilegaard, or even nearer us, between Nybol and Sandbjerg, the Austro-Prussians have a line of only five, or, in the latter case, three miles to guard against the Danes. Supposing the Germans to be no more than 20,000 on this line, they would always be as two to one against any force that could attempt a sortie from Alsen and Dybbol; and the isthmus of the Frede hricia peninsula would be even a closer field for ossifying garrison to try its strength on. Were even 20,000 men insufficient to completely mask, invest, and shut in the fortresses, the Germans might easily sit down before each of them with 40,000 or 50,000, and they could still command 50,000 more for the easy subjugation of the unarmed population. The Danes seem inclined to put their trust in ships, and think that, while leaving in their two strongholds a sufficient number of de fenders, they could land small forces here and there so as to harass the enemy on many points and wear him out by incessant desultory warfare. All this, however, would not lead to a happy termination of the struggle in their favour ; it would not pat an end to the foreign occupation of all their main land. The siege of the two fortresses and a series of guerilla exploits would be all that Europe might look forward to for six or eight months or a year to come. At the end of that period the Danes would still be where they were a fort night ago; they would still have to repurehase their own peninsula, or such part of it as the Ger mans might feel inclined to restore, by accepting such conditions as a conqueror has it in his power to dictate. Without achieving their victory by the reduction of Alsen and Fredericia the Austro-Prus sians would reap all the benefits of complete suc cess. They are under no necessity, and it certainly is not for their interest, to shed another drop of blood by their own act, and such injury as the Danes might still inflict upon them would have no greater effect on the vast body of their troops than the sting of a gnat on the huge bulk of an elephant. Still, the Danes reckon, and very reasonably too, on the chapter of accidents. The in vasion of Jutland, they think, has filled the measure of their enemy's iniquities. The in dignation of Europe cannot long remain passive in sight of so flagrant a violation of all legality. Nothing can be stronger than the conviction in the hearts of those poor Danes that help must turn up for them from some quarter or other. It grieves me more than I can tell to be addressed by officers and soldiers, when they think they have made it out that I am an Englishman, with such words as, " Why should England suffer us to perish ? Why do not the English come to the rescue?'' The Danes, however, have something to look for ward to more promising to their cause than the help of foreign nations, and that is dissension among the Germans themselves. Jealousy between Austria and Prussia, the attitude of th e B li nd, the ambition of the minor Princes, the revolutionary tendencies of the German peopl e , every thi n g engenders a belief that their enemy canno t long act unanimously against them, if th ey w ill only persevere to the end ; and with such prospec ts before them there is no doubt that th e Danes will fight on and endure. Their position does not app ear to them more hope less than it was in 1849, when all was lost and all was eventually regained. There has been some trifling encounter of patrols to-day as usual, in which one man was killed and one wounded. The wounded yesterday were three; none killed. I am told that the Germans have been collecting a large number of boats in the Gelting Bucht, across the Flensburg Fjord, with the intention of attempt ing a landing on Alsen, whenever such an attempt may be act as a diversion to s contemplated attack on Dybbol. 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